2026 – 2027 Campaign
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Sep 15 2026 | Janelle Molony | Waking the Bedlam Boys |
| Oct 20 2026 | Kellie Gormley | Cease Firing! Life and Death at the Swope Manor |
| Nov 17 2026 | Chris Mackowski, Ph.D | The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson |
| Dec 15 2026 | Doug Hoverson | Beer Brewing during the Civil War |
| Jan 19 2027 | David Geister | The Civil War: A Birds-eye View |
Feb 16 2027 | Brian Pease | Minnesota’s Battle Paintings: Artists’ Search for the Story |
| Mar 16 2027 | Greg Starbuck | Hunter’s Raid and the Battle of Lynchburg |
| May 18 2027 | Jared Peatman | A Hell of a Regiment: To Gettysburg and Beyond with the Twentieth Maine |
2025 – 2026 Campaign
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Sep 16 2025 | Greg Biggs | Nashville: Siren’s Song of the Western Confederacy |
| Oct 21 2025 | Curt Fields | Belmont to Fort Donelson |
| Nov 18 2025 | Tim Smith | The Real Horse Soldiers |
| Dec 16 2025 | Paul Hodnefield | Sherman’s Woodticks: 8th MN Infantry Regiment |
| Jan 20 2026 | Stefan Lund | Parole of Prisoners of War in the Civil War |
| Feb 17 2026 | Chris Kolakowski | “Had it been a defeat instead, the Nation could have scarcely lived over.” Stones River 1862-63 |
| Mar 17 2026 | Ian Iverson | The Union in Peril: Lincoln and the Secession Crisis 1860-April 1861 |
| May 19 2026 | Brian Jordan | Held in War’s Grasp: The Ordeals of Veteranhood After the Civil War |
2024 – 2025 Campaign
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Sep 17 2024 | Theresa Kaminski | Dr. Mary Walker: Medal of Honor Winner |
| Oct 15 2024 | Ms. Gary Morgan | Andersonville Raiders |
| Nov 19 2024 | Randy Duncan | President Lincoln’s Response to the Sioux Uprising |
| Dec 17 2024 | Doug Dammann | Elmer Ellsworth and the U.S. Zouave Cadets |
| Jan 21 2025 | Stefan Lund | Copperheads vs President Lincoln |
| Feb 18 2025 | David Powell | Battle of Chickamauga |
| Mar 18 2025 | Bruce Allardice | Early Baseball and the Civil War |
| May 20 2025 | Roseann Bacha-Garza | The Civil War on the Rio Grande |
2023 – 2024 Campaign
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Sep 19 2023 | Eric W Buckland | An Introduction to Mosby’s Rangers |
| Oct 17 2023 | William Feis | General Grenville Dodge, Grant’s Chief Intelligence Officer |
| Nov 14 2023 | Dan Welch | General George Sears Greene & Culp’s Hill |
| Dec 19 2023 | Christopher Kolakowski | General Grant as Commander-in-Chief of the Union Armes |
| Jan 16 2024 | Derek Lee | Civil War Ciphers & Codes Wartime Evolution |
| Feb 20 2024 | Dr. Lesley Gordon | The Concept of “Cowardice” in the Civil War |
| Mar 19 2024 | Anne Rubin | Food and Hunger During the Civil War |
| May 21 2024 | David Wright Falade | U.S. Colored Troops at War |
2022 – 2023 Campaign
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Sep 20 2022 | Amy Murrell Taylor | Emancipation During the Civil War |
| Oct 18 2022 | Richard Bell | Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home |
| Nov 15 2022 | Scott Mingus | The Louisiana Tigers |
| Dec 20 2022 | Dr. Lisa Rude | Out to Work: Women in the Civil War Homefront |
| Jan 17 2023 | John Fazio | The Turning Point: The Wilderness and Spotsylvania |
| Feb 21 2023 | Chris Crutchfield | The Underground Railroad |
| Mar 21 2023 | Leslie Goddard | Clara Barton: Civil War Battlefield Nurse |
| May 16 2023 | Lorien Foote | The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy |
2021 – 2022 Campaign
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Sep 21 2021 | Linda Barnickel | Milliken’s Bend: Fighting for Freedom on the Mississippi |
| Oct 19 2021 | Nicole Etheson | Bleeding Kansas |
| Nov 16 2021 | Larry Babits | Black Confederates |
| Dec 21 2021 | George Romano | How Christmas Won the War |
| Jan 18 2022 | COL Ed Lowe | James Longstreet in Chattanooga and Knoxville |
| Feb 15 2022 | Dave Page | U.S. Grant in Missouri: The Re-education of a Civil War Legend |
| Mar 15 2022 | Caroline Janney | Competing Memories of the Civil War |
| May 17 2022 | Wayne Motts | Trust in God and Fear in Nothing: Confederate General Lewis Armistead |
2020 – 2021 Campaign
| Sep 15 2022 | Douglas Waller | Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save the Union |
| Oct 20 2020 | David Dixon | Union General August Willich |
| Nov 17 2020 | Thomas Arliskas | General U.S. Grant and the Battle of Belmont |
| Dec 15 2020 | Brian Steele Willis | General George Henry Thomas |
| Jan 19 2021 | Darryl Sannes | Burn the Town and Sack the Banks: The Confederate Raid on St. Albans, VT |
| Feb 16 2021 | John Fazio | Decapitating the Union: Jefferson Davis, Judah Benjamin and the Plot to Assassinate Lincoln |
| Mar 16 2021 | Leslie Goddard | Gone with the Wind and the Construction of Civil War Memory |
| May 18 2021 | John Haymond | The Infamous Dakota War Trials of 1862: Revenge, Military Law, and the Judgment of History |
2019 – 2020 Campaign
| Sep 17 2019 | Steve Davis | When Georgia Howled: Sherman’s Destruction of Atlanta |
| Oct 15 2019 | Matthew Borowick | How Northern Financial Decisions Won the Civil War |
| Nov 19 2019 | Joe Fitzharris | Murfreesboro: Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Third Minnesota, and “Fake” History |
| Dec 17 2019 | John D. Cox | Fredericksburg: “It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it.” |
| Jan 21 2020 | Dave Geister and Pat Bauer | Artists in Residence: Gettysburg |
| Feb 18 2020 | Paul Kahan | The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant: Preserving the Civil War’s Legacy |
| Mar 17 2020 | John Haymond | The Infamous Dakota War Trials of 1862: Revenge, Military Law, and the Judgment of History |
| May 19 2020 | Wayne Motts | Trust in God and Fear Nothing: Confederate General Lewis A. Armistead |
2018 – 2019 Campaign
| Sep 18 2018 | John Cox | Gettysburg and the Battle for Culp’s Hill |
| Oct 16 2018 | David Dixon | The Lost Gettysburg Address: Charles Anderson’s Civil War Odyssey |
| Nov 20 2018 | Paul Brueske | The Last Siege: The Mobile Campaign, Alabama 1865 |
| Dec 18 2018 | Greg Biggs | The Question was One of Supplies – The Logistics for William T. Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign |
| Jan 15 2019 | Frederick Stonehouse | Blood on the Water: The Great Lakes During the Civil War |
| Feb 19 2019 | Larry Ahlman | Oliver Winchester in the Civil War |
| Mar 19 2019 | Dave Page | F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Civil War |
| May 21 2019 | George Karvel | Kentucky Raider: The Story of Private Commodore Perry Snell |
2017 – 2018 Campaign
| Sep 19 2017 | Ray Boomhower | The Sword and the Pen: a Life of Lew Wallace |
| Oct 17, 2017 | Edwin P. Rutan | “If I have got to go and fight I am willing” A Union Regiment Forged in the Petersburg Campaign, the 179th New York Volunteer Infantry 1864-1865 |
| Nov 21 2017 | Rep. Dean Urdahl | Three Paths to Glory: the 2nd and 5th Minnesota Regiments and the 1st Tenn in the First Year of the Civil War |
| Dec 19 2017 | Stephen Osman | Minnesota’s Other Civil War: The Dakota Conflict of 1862 |
| Jan 16 2018 | George C. Maxwell | Civil War Surgeon Archibald S. Maxwell – An Iowa Soldier’s Aid |
| Feb 20 2018 | Brian Dirck | Lincoln’s Childhood |
| Mar 20 2018 | Mark Laubacher | Weapons of Mass Destruction |
| May 15 2018 | George Romano | Thadeus Lowe and the Aeronauts |
2016 – 2017 Campaign
| Sep 20 2016 | Bruce Kraig | Why the Civil War Made Our Modern Food |
| Oct 18 2016 | George Franks III | The Battle of Falling Waters |
| Nov 15 2016 | Tom Huntington | Searching for George Gordon Meade: The Forgotten Victor of Gettysburg |
| Dec 20 2016 | Lawrence Babits | The USS Maple Leaf: Its History, Discovery and Excavation |
| Jan 17 2017 | Neil Simonson | Island Number 10 |
| Feb 21 2017 | Paul Kahan | Amiable Scoundrel: Lincoln’s Scandalous Secretary of War |
| Mar 21 2017 | Daniel Hoisington | It’s a Marvelous Thing: The U.S Sanitary and Christian Commission |
| May 16 2017 | Leslie Schwalm | Overrun with Free Negroes: Politics and Resettlement |
2015 – 2016 Campaign
| Sep 15 2015 | Tim Smith | Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation |
| Oct 20 2015 | Robert Girardi | The Murder of Union General William “Bull” Nelson |
| Nov 17 2015 | Krista Castillo | Fort Negley: A Symbol of Union Occupation, Confederate Defeat, or Something Else Entirely |
| Dec 15 2015 | Stephen Chicoine | Renegade – The Unconditional Union Men of Texas |
| Jan 19 2016 | Christopher Price | Gettysburg of the West Battle |
| Feb 16 2016 | George Wunderlich | Civil War Medicine |
| Mar 15 2016 | Robert May | Lincoln Douglas, the Myth of America’s Westward Expansion, and the Coming of the Civil War |
| May 17 2016 | Al Stone as Gen’l Robert E. Lee | The Dilemma |
2014 – 2015 Campaign
| Sep 16 2014 | Steven Woodworth | The Atlanta Campaign |
| Oct 21 2014 | Barry Adams | Fifteen Months in Confederate Captivity: The Story of William W. Day |
| Nov 18 2014 | Dale Blanshan | Civil War Music Presentation |
| Dec 16 2014 | Wayne Jorgenson | Every Man Did His Duty: 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg |
| Jan 20 2015 | Louis Intres | Steamship Sultana |
| Feb 17 2015 | Tom Hosier | Assassination of Lincoln |
| Mar 17 2015 | Brian Wills | Nathan Bedford Forrest |
| May 19 2015 | Marty Daniels | Women in the Civil War |
2013 – 2014 Campaign
| Sep 17 2013 | Dr. David Williard | Confederate Veteran’s Self-Reconstruction During the Years Immediately Following the Civil War |
| Oct 15 2013 | The Honorable Judge John Guthmann | A Legal Analysis of the Ownership of the Battle Flag of the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Captured by the 1st Minnesota in Gettysburg |
| Nov 19 2013 | Greg Biggs | How Johnny Got His Gun – The Confederate Supply System |
| Dec 17 2013 | Michael D. Cohen | Reconstructing the Campus Higher Education and the American Civil War |
| Jan 21 2014 | Harry Bulkeleys | General Ulysses S. Grant: I Propose to Fight It Out |
| Feb 18 2014 | Dr. Howard Jones | Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War Diplomacy |
| Mar 18 2014 | Jim Rosebrock | George McClellan in Perspective – 150 Years Later |
| May 20 2014 | Scott Brackett | H. L. Hunley |
2012 – 2013 Campaign
| Sep 18 2012 | Melissa Delcour | J.E.B. Stuart: American Knight |
| Oct 16 2012 | Dr Richard DiNardo | Lee’s Re-treaded Tar Heels: The 26th NC Between Gettysburg and the Wilderness |
| Nov 20 2012 | Jeffrey Patrick | Battle of Wilson’s Creek August 10, 1861 |
| Dec 18 2012 | MN Historical Staff | MNHS’s Civil War Sesquincentennial Exhibit |
| Jan 15 2013 | Dr. David Kolkenat | Driven From Home: The Civil War Refugee Crisis |
| Feb 19 2013 | Timothy Townsend | Lincoln and Emancipation |
| Mar 19 2013 | Dr. Gary Joiner | The Red River Campaign of 1864 |
| May 21 2013 | John Marler | The Petersburg Campaign |
2011 – 2012 Campaign
| Sep 20 2011 | Greg Biggs | The Atlanta Campaign, Part I |
| Oct 18 2011 | Greg Biggs | The Atlanta Campaign, Part II |
| Nov 15 2011 | Jessica Michna as Mary Todd Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln Reminisces |
| Dec 20 2011 | Dr. Bruce Evans | The Health and Death of Abraham Lincoln |
| Jan 17 2012 | Glen LaFantiasie | How Grant and Lincoln Won the War |
| Feb 21 2012 | Mark Steiner | Abraham Lincoln’s Law Practice |
| Mar 20 2012 | Vernon Burton | The Age of Lincoln, Then and Now |
| May 15 2012 | Daniel Sutherland | Guerrilla Warefare in the Western Theater |
2010 – 2011 Campaign
| Sep 21 2010 | Dr. Roger Ranson | Economics, Slavery & Causes of the American Civil War |
| Oct 19 2010 | Jim Lewis | Stones River |
| Nov 16 2010 | Fred Tetor | C.S.S. Hunley Recovery and Excavation |
| Dec 21 2010 | Joe Fitzharris | Army-Navy Joint Counter-Insurgency Warfare in the Western Theater |
| Jan 18 2011 | Dr. Peter D’Onofrio | Advances in Medicine Resulting from the American Civil War |
| Feb 15 2011 | Jim Hessler | Sickles at Gettysburg |
| Mar 15 2011 | Dr. Bill Feis | Grant and Military Intelligence |
| May 17 2011 | Dr. William H. Roberts | Ironclads and Industrial Mobilitation |